Skoie, Mathilde (2009). The hermeneutics of commenting in the 21st century: A tale of two Catilines and their commentaries, In pascale hummel (ed.),
Metaphilology. Histories and languages of Philology.
Philologicum.
ISBN 978-2-9529524-6-0.
Kapittel.
s 237
- 254

Focusing on the representation of the Augustan poet Sulpicia in commentaries, this work investigates the interpretative strategies involved in the reading of an ancient text. Mathilde Skoie discusses a selection of commentaries from the Renaissance to the present day, combining the history of classical scholarship, philology, feminist literary theory, and reception theory. Readership: Scholars and students of Classics (including the history of classical scholarship), women's studies (including feminist criticism), gender studies, cultural studies, the history of ideas, literary theory/criticism, hermeneutics

Abstract: Does regarding classical scholarship as reception change the way we conceive and practice the history of scholarship? If so, what are the implications? In this paper I shall address these questions by looking at commentaries on Latin poetry as reception, in particular the Roman elegist Sulpicia. The main argument is that looking at commentaries as reception indeed has the potential of changing the way we write the history of scholarship. One of the implications of such a change is the change of focus from the institution and the scholar to the classical text itself. This is a change of focus which I shall argue might bring us closer towards an understanding of the actual scholarship and its history than the traditional approach.